Refresh/Rails Meeting – Amazon Presenting
Posted in Ramblings on February 28th, 2007 by Richard Yoo
Archive for February, 2007
Regarding babies…
Posted in Ramblings on February 28th, 2007 by Richard YooFewer babies…
“There are two reasons fertility rates can decline,” said J. David Hacker, a SUNY Binghamton historian. “One explanation is that marriage declines. Not as many women get married, and if they do marry, they do so at a later age, so that there is less time to have children. The second explanation is that people consciously try to limit having children, which was revolutionary in the 19th century.”
Smarter babies…
Women who eat seafood while pregnant may be boosting their children’s IQ in the process, according to new research published Friday in The Lancet. The results of the study were surprising, say the authors, and contradict American and British recommendations that pregnant women should limit seafood and fish consumption to avoid potentially high levels of mercury.
Tangle Free
Posted in Ramblings on February 24th, 2007 by Richard YooFor those of you who know me really well, you’ll know why I love this! 
When Gmail is Blocked
Posted in Ramblings on February 22nd, 2007 by Richard YooI’ve had a few friends tell me that Gmail was inaccessible from where they were… it could be a network problem, or filtering, or a policy issue.
Here are some ways to get around the problem…
Web 2.0
Posted in Ramblings on February 20th, 2007 by Richard YooA buddy sent me this vdeo…and its really well done… it walks you down the path of how Web 2.0 came to be…
Google Calendar and Outlook Syncing
Posted in Ramblings on February 18th, 2007 by Richard YooSo you love Google Calendar, huh?
And you also love Outlook/Exchange, too?
And you also have your smartphone synced with your Outlook/Exchange all the time?
But you’d like to integreate Google Calendar with all of that as well?
Well – here ya go! (P.S. – its completely FREE)
Texas Leads in Foreclosures
Posted in Ramblings on February 16th, 2007 by Richard YooOuch!
In Texas, 14,728 new foreclosure filings were reported over the course of January — the highest number of new foreclosures posted by any state in the United States, according to RealtyTrac.
Small Place to Live
Posted in Ramblings on February 12th, 2007 by Richard YooThe last time I was at the gym with my usual group of friends, someone spoke of a tiny “apartment” that was for sale in London that was the size of a closet…
Look what £170,000 can buy you
A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 in London’s upmarket Chelsea.
During the conversation it was unclear how anyone could possibly live in something so small… but it seems that its actually possible!
Simple Simon used SketchUp to draw up plans for a renovation of the place that would render it habitable. His ideas are pretty clever
Lucasfilm data center
Posted in Ramblings on February 10th, 2007 by Richard YooI love datacenter’s…
CNET’s Veronica Belmont toured the cutting-edge data center at Lucasfilm in San Francisco. From Web sites to e-mail to graphic rendering, all the bytes pass through here at this high-tech movie production company.
Save NPR and PBS
Posted in Ramblings on February 8th, 2007 by Richard YooI’m sure lots of you out there love NPR and PBS…. 
President Bush just proposed drastic cuts to NPR and PBS. We’ve stopped similar cuts in the past, but enough is enough: With the new Congress, we can make sure this never happens again. Sign this petition to Congress
Good Unix
Posted in Ramblings on February 6th, 2007 by Richard YooBad habits? nah….
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up.
Gates on Daily Show
Posted in Ramblings on February 4th, 2007 by Richard YooSurprisingly funny interview of Bill Gates on the Daily Show…
Update: This video is no longer available due to this:
Entertainment conglomerate Viacom has demanded that YouTube and Google Video remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips of its video content, the company said in a statement Friday.
Google Maps for PPC
Posted in Ramblings on February 3rd, 2007 by Richard YooGoogle Maps for PocketPC has finally been released!
Visit www.google.com/gmm on your mobile web browser to download it!
Whats amazing is how fast it is… Clearly, MSFT’s Virtual Earth Mobile isn’t as good.
Cell signal booster
Posted in Ramblings on February 2nd, 2007 by Richard Yoo
Cell signal booster
After reading my buddy’s blog post about the zBoost cell phone signal booster, I decided to order one for my home. Although my 3-story abode has decent cellular signal on the top 2 floors, you’d think I was living in a deep hole in the ground on the 1st floor.
It was a pretty easy set up and seems to work pretty well… now, phones that showed only 1 or 2 bars are now showing 3 or 4 bars… we’ll see if the call quality improves as we use it over time.
Thanks Rakesh!
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